Innovation in early breast cancer surgery: Radio-guided occult lesion localization and sentinel node biopsy

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 625-627

  Paganelli, G ^a   Veronesi, U ^a  

^a EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Non palpable lesions; Sentinel node

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SURGERY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; OCCULT CANCER; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

EID: 0036301941     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006231-200207000-00006     Document Type: Article

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